Melincourt, المجلد 2

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J.M. Dent & Company, 1891 - 202 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 153 - Ye have the account Of my performance : what remains, ye gods ! But up, and enter now into full bliss ?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn...
الصفحة 156 - We shall exult, if they who rule the land Be men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright, valiant ; not a servile band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear And honour which they do not understand.
الصفحة 57 - ... untruly answered, Custom. Though Virtue be commended for the most persuasive in her theory, and Conscience in the plain demonstration of the spirit finds most evincing ; yet, whether it be the secret of divine will, or the original blindness we are bom in, so it happens for the most part, that Custom still is silently received for the best instructor.
الصفحة 188 - By that heavenly form of thine, Brightest fair, thou art divine, Sprung from great immortal race Of the gods, for in thy face Shines more awful majesty, Than dull weak mortality Dare with misty eyes behold, And live : therefore on this mould Lowly do I bend my knee In worship of thy deity.
الصفحة 31 - But he that will mould a modern bishop into a primitive must yield him to be elected by the popular voice, undiocesed, unrevenued, unlorded ; and leave him nothing but brotherly equality, matchless temperance, frequent fasting, incessant prayer and preaching, continual watchings and labours in his ministry.
الصفحة 189 - Like Apollo, tell me, sweetest, What new service now is meetest For the Satyr? Shall I stray In the middle air and stay The sailing rack...
الصفحة 189 - Hold by the moon, and gently make Suit to the pale queen of night For a beam to give thee light ? Shall I dive into the sea, And bring thee coral, making way Through the rising waves that fall In snowy fleeces ? Dearest, shall I catch thee wanton fawns, or flies Whose woven wings the summer dyes Of many colours ? get thee fruit, Or steal from Heaven old Orpheus' lute ? All these I'll venture for, and more, To do her service all these woods adore.
الصفحة 161 - To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice, is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion ; and ^1} are so far influenced by a sense of reputation, that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power ; nor can any species of prostitution promote general...
الصفحة 42 - That I should entail £120,000 of command over labour, of power to remit this, to employ it for beneficent purposes, on one whom I know not, — who might, instead of being the benefactor of mankind, be its bane, or use this for the worst purposes, which the real delegates of my chancegiven property might convert into a most useful instrument of benevolence ! No ! this you will not suspect me of.
الصفحة 188 - Shepherd, see, what comes of kissing ; By my head, 'twere better missing. Brightest, if there be remaining Any service, without feigning I will do it ; were I set To catch the nimble wind, or get Shadows gliding on the green...

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